From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Jim Geist <velocityboy@gmail.com>
Cc: "tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>,
Don Hopkins <don@donhopkins.com>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 14:44:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfphBORbr+HvR5ZvBK9aFvgYx0BT0mRbTSSczRzEzdZ0gw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJohCKK05su6U37B9ANc8gHs7Pnfe+5xhAFNroD2SA88dCcSHA@mail.gmail.com>
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Especially if you use the WD40 trick for the ink ribbon. :)
Warner
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 1:14 PM Jim Geist <velocityboy@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a functional LA120 in my house and can attest to the machine smell
> whenever I run it.
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:50 AM Cornelius Keck <ckeck@texoma.net> wrote:
>
>> Then promptly run into trouble with your SO and/or XO because they don't
>> like the fragrance?
>>
>>
>> Toby Thain wrote:
>> > On 2018-08-08 10:45 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Sijmen J. Mulder <ik@sjmulder.nl
>> >> <mailto:ik@sjmulder.nl>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm too young to have worked with teletypes or terminals but to
>> >>
>> >> __
>> >>
>> >> experience what working over a slower connection would be like I
>> >> wrote____
>> >>
>> >> a small pty program that throttles stdin and stdout to a given
>> baud____
>> >>
>> >> rate
>> >>
>> >> Sadly you are missing three important features in your emulation.
>> First
>> >> the noise and the second associated motion of the carriage as the
>> >> printer did its thing. (The movement of the 'ball' (cylinder on a TTY)
>> >> was magical and made it quite set of sounds you will never forget -
>> >> often duplicated in the movies). But the hardest thing to simulate is
>> >> the distinct smell of light machine oil that all terminal rooms had.
>> >
>> > Isn't this easy? Just use a spritzer of it around your PC.
>> >
>> > --T
>> >
>> >> Clem
>> >> ᐧ
>> >
>>
>
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2018-08-08 12:10 ` [TUHS] " Don Hopkins
2018-08-08 12:32 ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2018-08-08 12:59 ` Don Hopkins
2018-08-08 13:51 ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2018-08-08 14:45 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-08 14:56 ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-08-08 15:09 ` [TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was " Toby Thain
2018-08-08 17:38 ` Cornelius Keck
2018-08-08 19:14 ` Jim Geist
2018-08-08 20:44 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2018-08-09 5:14 ` arnold
2018-08-09 5:55 ` Jim Geist
2018-08-09 6:02 ` George Michaelson
2018-08-09 7:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-09 12:36 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-09 13:45 ` Michael Parson
2018-08-09 13:31 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-09 14:15 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-08-09 14:26 ` Eric Wayte
2018-08-10 11:37 ` Pete Turnbull
2018-08-10 11:37 ` Pete Turnbull
2018-08-10 16:24 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2018-08-10 16:58 ` Pete Turnbull
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